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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Hi all,
I've installed recently Lucid Lynx. I detest the plymouth splash and I'd like to know if I can use the dear old usplash of Edgy. If yes, where can I download it and above all how can I run it on Grub2? I have a Nvidia Geforce gtx260 for a Philips 220WS flat monitor. These are the resolution Lucid found:

Perhaps you can by editing /etc/default/grub to use usplash, but here's the thing.

Plymouth is more than just a graphical boot-splash app. It's evil tentacles reach into just about everything else in the entire system! I mean "hard dependency." To see what I mean, just mark Plymouth for removal in Synaptic but don't click apply! Just look the huge list of stuff "to be removed" - it lists at least half of the OS!

This was not true of previous versions. But I guess gaining a fraction of a second faster boot time was the top priority for Lucid. It's too bad they chose a LTS version for this experimentation.

This doesn't let you completely change that depressing purple/moving dot startup screen, but the following lines entered in Terminal will change the purple to a much nicer light blue. Thanks to allarem for this (cannot remember where I saw it):

sudo gedit /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.script

at approximately line 160, you can change the values for the Window.SetBackground lines to light blue with:

sorry for my long disconnection. Finally I've had success in loading plymouth. It's true that it is more than a simple splash theme and the prove is that it was very difficult for me to make it working. Since I've not enough secure I think I'll keep plymouth as is.
Thanks anyway.

Plymouth is more than just a graphical boot-splash app. It's evil tentacles reach into just about everything else in the entire system! I mean "hard dependency." To see what I mean, just mark Plymouth for removal in Synaptic but don't click apply! Just look the huge list of stuff "to be removed" - it lists at least half of the OS!

Couldn't agree more. such wild dependency is totally wrong, for something that play only in pre fstab mounting phrase. What worse, the package maintainer just refuse to fix it. See LP# 556372.

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Originally Posted by dixiedancer

This was not true of previous versions. But I guess gaining a fraction of a second faster boot time was the top priority for Lucid

faster? I really doubt it. I remove it and my machine is sure not wasting time drawing that animated dots during boot up.